Teo You Yenn

Aug 15, 2024 | jom.media | Teo You Yenn |Jonathan Chan |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Aryan Pershad

In school, we are given questions and told to find the answers. We’re led to believe that challenges arise from complex solutions, and we’re trained to work with those complexities. But I had the fortunate misery of learning, earlier than any child should, that life is actually about discovering the right questions. For at the age of six, my whole world was turned into a question: what is wrong with me?

Jul 25, 2024 | jom.media | Teo You Yenn |Jonathan Chan |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Kristian-Marc James Paul

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Jul 11, 2024 | jom.media | Teo You Yenn

In this excerpt from her chapter in Why Not? Thinking about Singapore's tomorrow, sociologist Teo You Yenn discusses the conditions that will enable people to exercise choice, autonomy, and ethical agency as they live the lives they want. You’ve successfully subscribed to Jom Welcome back! You’ve successfully signed in. Great! You’ve successfully signed up.

Jul 11, 2024 | jom.media | Teo You Yenn

How can people live the lives they want? Now that I have laid claims about what people want from life, another, more precise, way to ask the question is this: what conditions enable people to encounter social belonging and respect, to have capacities to exercise choice, autonomy, and ethical agency? Enabling conditions: principlesLet us consider the mothers I interviewed. First, we must acknowledge and embrace that women do not all have the same preferences.